Is Nancy Jacobsen's Problem-Makers Caucus Trying To Deliver Wall Street Nancy Pelosi's Head On A Platter?

The honorable co-chair

The so-called "Problem Solvers Caucus," best known for never having solved a problem, is led by reactionary Wall Street-owned Democrap Josh Gottherimer (Blue Dog-NJ) and mainstream Republican Tom Reed (NY). It is part of Nancy Jacobsen's ultra-corrupt No Labels shit show which is financed by far right corporate interests working to drag the Democratic Party away from any semblance of progressivism. Thankfully, most of their members won't be returning to Congress in January. Most of this batch was defeated or forced to retire to avoid defeat:

• Mike Coffman (R-CO)
• David Young (R-IA)
• Elizabeth Esty (New Dem-CT)
• Lynn Jenkins (R-KS)
• Charlie Dent (R-PA)
• Ryan Costello (R-PA)
• Pat Meehan (R-PA)
• Carlos Curbelo (R-FL)
• Richard Nolan (D-MN)
• Tom MacArthur (R-NJ)
• Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
• Jared Polis (New Dem-CO)
• Ileana Ros-Lehtien (R-FL)

Aside from Gottheimer, that leaves a pack of rabid Blue Dogs and New Dems from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party, corporate Dems, financed by Wall Street to do the bidding of Big Business:

• Vicente Gonzalez (Blue Dog-TX)
• Jim Costa (Blue Dog-CA)
• Brad Schneider (New Dem-IL)
• Stephanie Murphy (Blue Dog-FL)
• Darren Soto (New Dem-FL)
• Tom Suozzi (New Dem-NY)
• Ami Bera (New Dem-CA)
• Dan Lipinski (Blue Dog-IL)
• Scott Peters (New Dem-CA)
• Charlie Crist (Blue Dog-FL)
• Kurt Schrader (Blue Dog-OR)
• Tom O'Halleran (Blue Dog-AZ)

Pelosi, Hoyer, Clyburn and the rest of the Democratic establishment have always coddled this gaggle of corruptionists. And now they're threatening to do the dirty work of the Wall Street banksters by torpedoing Pelosi's bid for the speakership. This morning, Politico ran a piece by Nolan McCaskill on the Problem Solvers' ploy. He wrote that 9 Democrats-- so 4 fewer Dems than I could find on their membership list-- had issued a statement Friday saying that they "will only vote for a speaker candidate who supports 'Break the Gridlock' rules changes," a Republican proposal to weaken Democrats and which was not handed to either Boehner or Ryan when the GOP held the majority. The vote is Wednesday.

Pelosi met with Problem Solvers Democrats last week after they sent her a letter “strongly” encouraging her to embrace their proposals to “Break the Gridlock.” Pelosi described the meeting as “positive and constructive” and credited members for coming forward “with valuable solutions” to restore the House “as the great marketplace of ideas our founders intended.”

She vowed to continue working with those members “to develop changes to the rules that will break the gridlock in Washington and deliver results for hard-working Americans.” But she failed to commit to any proposals.

“While we appreciate Leader Pelosi’s broad commitment to our effort, we have yet to receive specific commitments to our proposed rules changes that would help ‘Break the Gridlock’ and allow for true bipartisan governing in this new era of divided government,” the members said Friday. “Without specific changes, we will face more of the same-- small pockets of extreme ideologues will continue to block the will of the commonsense majority.”

The Problem Solvers Democrats said the midterm elections made clear that Americans want a working, bipartisan government that moves the country forward, not “obstructionism and pure partisanship.”

“Although we are at a stalemate in our discussions, and therefore cannot support Leader Pelosi for speaker at this time, we will keep working with the leader and others in hope of reaching consensus on specific rules changes for more bipartisan, common sense governing,” they said.

Since it is primarily Wall Street and the pharmaceutical companies behind the move to oust or weaken Pelosi, take a look at how much each of these crooks has taken from those two sectors since being elected. Some of these gentlemen are virtual bribe-taking machines:

• Josh Gottheimer (Blue Dog-NJ)- $2,957,327
• Vicente Gonzalez (Blue Dog-TX)- $316,498
• Jim Costa (Blue Dog-CA)- $1,149l,428
• Brad Schneider (New Dem-IL)- $2,440,799
• Stephanie Murphy (Blue Dog-FL)- $715,746
• Darren Soto (New Dem-FL)- $336,377
• Tom Suozzi (New Dem-NY)- $1,044,912
• Ami Bera (New Dem-CA)- $2,026,616
• Dan Lipinski (Blue Dog-IL)- $395,501
• Scott Peters (New Dem-CA)- $2,013,752
• Charlie Crist (Blue Dog-FL)- $3,244,583
• Kurt Schrader (Blue Dog-OR)- $1,422,628
• Tom O'Halleran (Blue Dog-AZ)- $545,115